Posted on 11/27/2018 5:59:31 PM PST by bitt
Yup......great additions.
Taking our language back one definition at a time. One more way to resist the metric system.
During WW2, the US often indicted the amount of a contract by using “M” for thousands. Don’t know why but I just copied a bunch of them for a case I’m working on.
And they say on a list of such contracts that “M” stands for “thousands” and uses the word “Millions” as itself.
Accountants and any industry calculating cost on a CPM or cost per thousand basis will use the Roman numeral “M” for thousand, and “MM” for million. This has been the case for a very long time.
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